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The freedom of UK lawyers to practise in China is crucial to its credibility as a world trading partner. But with its legal system still so new, China is understandably nervous about lowering barriers to allow a free market in legal services. Yet, argues Rosie Winterton, the junior Minister at the Lord Chancellor’s Department, the move must be made: “Legal systems that fail to embrace the required changes and restrict entry and practice by foreign lawyers risk isolating and marginalising their own lawyers and impeding growth,” she says. “Commercial business flows to truly international firms based or operating in truly